Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans from the birth of Franklin in 1706 until Jefferson's death on July 4, 1826-precisely 50 years after he signed the Declaration of Independence. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, documents and artifacts, including a hulking 3,500-Ib. stuffed buffalo-a symbol of the vast, unmapped Western territory that Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase after becoming President. Following trips to Warsaw and London, the show, which is being underwritten by IBM, will come to the U.S. in March...
...agency that was set up to protect the country's vanishing tribes. The attacks mark a desperate new stage in a struggle that began more than 300 years ago, when the Indians first resisted white men who were looking for gold, rubber and slaves in Brazil's vast interior. Just since the turn of this century, more than 96 tribes have disappeared in the face of white expansion; the country's Indian population, which may once have been as high as 4 million, is today less than...
...problem now is Brazil's highway-building program, which is lacing the vast Amazon region with roads, including the trans-Amazon highway stretching 2,843 miles from Recife on the Atlantic Coast to the Peruvian border...
...vast mass of humanity is, alas, attracted by nonsense. To point out that it is nonsense is merely to reassure people. They will roll in the dung heap all the more merrily for knowing that it is the real thing. The Roman philosopher Seneca said, "Man is a reasoning animal." What evidence he had for that assertion no one knows; certainly none has surfaced in the 19 centuries since his time...
...keeping with the marked obsession of this week's capsules with the twin themes of Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards will open Jan 31 at the Harvard Epworth Church. Sometimes, everything seems to come together like some vast jigsaw puzzle...